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Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

Deploying a Ruby web application

Learn how to deploy a Ruby web application using Octopus Deploy.

How to Handle locked files and deployments

SysInternals Handle is a useful tool for finding why a file is locked

Using the NGINX Docker image

Learn how to create Docker web apps based on the NGINX image.

Installing WildFly From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of WildFly.

Installing Tomcat From Scratch

Learn the steps you'll need to configure a working instance of Tomcat.

Announcing GitHub Actions for Octopus Deploy

You can now integrate your GitHub builds with deployments in Octopus Deploy thanks to our GitHub Actions.

Structured Logging with Seq

Seq is a server that makes it easy to analyse and search structured logs

Heartbleed and Octopus Deploy

Octopus uses SSL libraries in Windows, and so isn't vulnerable to the Hearbleed bug

Improved Azure App Service deployments

Learn about the improved Azure App Service deployment step included in Octopus 2021.1.

Migrating an ASP.NET web app from IIS on-premises to an Azure App Service

Learn how to migrate an ASP.NET web app from hosting it on-premises to an Azure App Service in the Cloud.

Request for Comments - ECS integration with Octopus

We're proposing new integrations with ECS in Octopus, and want your feedback.

OctoPack now supports assembly versions

Octopus Deploy 4.0 - History

The history of how Octopus 4.0 was born.

Using classes in custom step templates

Learn how to implement a class in a custom step template.

Roadmap published

Documentation

Installing Tomcat on Ubuntu

With Octopus Deploy you can install Tomcat on Ubuntu with a runbook as part of a routine operations task.

Accessing container details

Docker steps provide access to container details, including network, volume, environment variables etc., and make them available in subsequent steps.

Rerun all canceled deployments and runbook runs after node shutdown.

An example script that determine which deployments and runbook runs were canceled because of a node shutdown and resubmit them.

Enable/disable project

An example script that enables or disables a project in Octopus.

Create a Google Cloud account

An example script to create a Google Cloud (GCP) account in Octopus.

Google Cloud

Octopus Deploy can help you perform repeatable and controlled deployments of your applications into Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Google cloud CLI scripts

Google cloud CLI Scripts allow you to manage your Google cloud resources as part of your deployment process.

Accounts

Configure accounts to use in conjunction with infrastructure during your deployments.

AWS accounts

Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy infrastructure to AWS and run scripts against the AWS CLI.

Azure

Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy software to your Windows servers, Linux servers, or cloud regions.

Google cloud accounts

Configure your infrastructure so Octopus can deploy infrastructure to GCP and run scripts against the gcloud CLI.

SSH key pair account

SSH key pair accounts allow you to securely authenticate with SSH targets.

Token account

Add token accounts to Octopus.

Username and password accounts

Username and Password Accounts allow you securely authenticate with different services.

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